Why this ride
A 56 km round trip from Greenhead - roughly 51 min in the saddle. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet, Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp and back through Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Chapel Rigg Roman temporary camp and Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 56 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 51 min
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Chapel Rigg Roman temporary camp
West of Haltwhistle, the land rises gently to the watershed between the Tyne and the Irthing, a broad, windy saddle of rough pasture known as the Tyne Gap, where rivers flow east to the North Sea and west to the Irish Sea. Chapel Rigg Roman temporary camp is one of several marching camps here, where Roman soldiers on the move dug a rectangular ditch and rampart for a night or a season, the earthworks now barely visible as low ridges in the grass. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Chapel Rigg Roman temporary camp write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Chapel Rigg Roman temporary camp is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet.
2. Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet
Midway along Hadrian's Wall, the land rises into a dramatic line of crags, and here the wall perches along the edge of the Whin Sill, a hard, dark rock that stands like a cliff over green pastures. Roman engineers followed the natural line of the escarpment, and from the top you can see for miles across moor and farmland, with the Cheviot hills blue in the north.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet comes up about 13 km into the recorded legs. Next is Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp.
3. Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp
Roman armies on campaign dug in every night. Wherever they halted, soldiers threw up a rectangular earth rampart and ditch around their tents, and on Walwick Fell, a short way west of the North Tyne, the faint outline of one of those temporary camps survives in the rough pasture. You need a keen eye and low sunlight to make it out, but its presence is a reminder that the Wall was built, maintained and defended by thousands of men who lived and worked in these hills, sometimes under canvas, sometimes in stone forts.
Read the complete Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 27 km into the recorded legs you reach Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet.
4. back through Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet, late in the day. Next is Chapel Rigg Roman temporary camp.
5. Chapel Rigg Roman temporary camp
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chapel Rigg Roman temporary camp write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Chapel Rigg Roman temporary camp. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Chapel Rigg Roman temporary camp to Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet
Chapel Rigg Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet to Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp
Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet → Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp to back through Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet
Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp → back through Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet to Chapel Rigg Roman temporary camp
back through Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet → Chapel Rigg Roman temporary camp is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.